If ICANN = ICAN’T, then do we “really” need ICANN?
Here is how it goes:
Top-level domains: if you or I can, do we need Icann?
THERE WAS a time when the internet didn’t just have a father or a godfather: for a brief period, it had a fully fledged god. The god died and a private company, Icann, took his place. Now it’s time we asked [...]
ICANN to auction new gTLDs
Just came across this nice news article:
ICANN has just published a paper from its contractor PowerAuctions LLC, regarding the use of auctions to award new Top Level Domains (TLD) strings in case of contention.
I can understand what ICANN wants to avoid. In the past, it has been criticized for using the “beauty contest” model with the [...]
The Billion-Dollar Domain Babies by E-Commerce-Times: Am I MISSING something?
There have been a lot of discussion on domain forums and blogs regarding ICANN’s plan to open up the Internet domain system and let people create any kind of TLD they can think of. Some people said its a good idea to allow all kind of extensions, while majority said its only going to confuse the web [...]
